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HAROLD ROWN'IREE, OE KENILWORTPLILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL PNEUMATIG COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF INES'I VIRGINIA.

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Specification. of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 12, 1917.

Original application filed October 29, 1912, Seria No. 728,376. Divided and this application led April 24,

. 1915. serial No. 23,618.

To all whom it 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, HAROLD Rowwrnnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kenilworth, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Passenger-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to passenger cars.

The object of the invention is to provide a door control arrangement for cars adapted for single, double end, near side, far side or center entrance4 operation.

Other objects of the invention will appear more fully hereinafter.

The invention consists substantially in the construction, combination, locationand relative arrangement of parts,`all as .will be more fully hereinafter set forth,.as shown in the accompanying drawing, and finally pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing Y Figure 1 is a diagrammatic floor plan view of a. passenger car embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a broken view in side elevation, parts in Vsection on the line 2, 2,Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a similar view in front elevation` on the line 3, 3, Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing the seat folded up to form avpassage separating barrier.

The same part is designated by fthejsame reference numeral wherever it occurs throughout the several views.

In accordance with my invention I provide the car with boarding and alighting plat forms 5, 6, 7, respectively atthe ends, and intermediate the ends of the car, and it is obvious that the intermediate platform may be located at the center orlatA any other desired or convenient point in the length of the car. If desired, and as shown, each platform extends across the car and is provided with a doorway at each side of the car. Under ordinary circumstances, Y and preferably, though notl necessarily, hesel side doorways, communicating between the street and the car, are the only doorways with which the caris provided, there being no bulkhead separation between theplatforms and the seating space of the car. In fact, as will be more fully pointed out hereinafter, the seating space of the car in the particular arrangement shown, extends from the dash at one end to that ofthe other end of the car. Each ldoorway is equipped with a door. The particular construction of dooris not of importance so far as my invention is concerned. In the particular form shown, two doors are employed at each doorway. Thus, at the platform 5,-at one end of the car, are provided the doors 20, 21, on one side and 22, 23 on the otherside ofthe car. Atthe platform 7 the doors 24, 25 are provided on one side` and doors 26, 27, on the otherand at platform 6, doors 28, 29, are provided on oneside and doors 30, 31, on the other side.

Disposed opposite each doorway of cach platform, and preferably opposite the central point of s uch doorway is a door control stand for the doors on the opposite side of said platform. Thus at the platforms 5, 7,

6, respectively, are the control stands 14,

and 15, 16 and 17, 18 and 19,- the members .of each pair of control stands being respectively located on opposite sides of a central aisle 33, which extends from end to end of the car. As above indicated from each control stand the doors on the opposite side of the same platform are controlled. Thev part'icular construction of door control connections is not of consequence so far as my present invention is concerned, and such connections maybe ofany desired4 construction or type, From the control stands 14, 16, 18, on one side of the aisle 33, the doors 22,

, 23 g 26, 27, and 30, 31, on the opposite side of the car, respectively, are operated; and similarly the doors 20, 12; 24, 25 and 28, 29, are respectivelyV controlled from the control stands 15, 17 19, as indicated in the drawing.

The control stands 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, are respectivelyassociated with a barrier device 8, 9, 10, 1.1, 12, 13, each of which, as above stated, is' located approximately opposite the center of the doorway with which it is associated. vEach barrier is located at the side of the aisle and extends transversely across the car toward its adjacent door, thereby forming, in effect, a transverse passageway on each side thereof which communicates between the central aisle 33 and the associated doorway.

In the arrangement shown, each barrier 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, is formed into a seat frame, and in this connection I prefer to employ a folding and disappearing seat such as is shown, described and claimed in my application Serial'No. 7 28,376, filed October 29, 1912, which resulted in Patent No.

1,180,321, dated Apr. 25, 1916, and from which the present application is divided.n In this arrangement the seat 34 is provided with side members 35, having pins 36, which work in vertical slots 37 in the side members 38, 39, of the barrier or seat frame. Links 40 are pivotally connected at one end to the base of the side frame members 3S, 39, as at 41, and at the other end to the outer free ends of the seat side members 35, as at 42. Pivotally connected at the lower ends to the seat side members 35, as at 46, are side members 44, which are carried by the seat back 43. lIhe upper ends of the memd bers 44, carry pins 45, which also work in the vertical slots 37. Springs 47 are connected at one end to the pins 45, and at the other ends are iixed to the members 3S, 39. lith this seat arrangement the seat 34, may be moved into position for use on either side of the standards 38, 39, or folded up into disappearing relation as indicated in Fig. 4. If the car is to be operated as a center entrance car then the seats associated with the barriers 3, 9, 12, 13, at the ends of the car will be rocked down into position for use on one side or the other of said barriers according to the direction of travel of the car, while the seats associated with the barriers 10, 11, will be rocked up into disappearing relation, and in addition the seats next adjacent the barrier 1-0 or 11, as the case may be will also be so presented or folded as not to obstruct the passage immediately inside the center side doors being used.

Ordinarily, however, in the operation of center entrance cars the doors on one side only of the car will be used. In this case the seat associated with the barrier which is adjacent the closed door on the opposite side of the car will be rocked down into position for use on the proper side of the barrier according to the direction of travel of the car while the next adjacent seat on the other side of the barrier will be folded up to provide a space to be occupied by the conductor where he will be located in convenient position across the aisle from the doors in use to operate the adjacent door control device, collect fares of passengers as they enter the car, give the necessary signals to the motorman, and generally supervise the boarding and alighting movements of the passengers.

The seats 32, if desired, may be of the ordinary type of cross seats such as are com- 'monly employed in street cars, or, if desired, all the seats may be of the disappearing type.

TWhile I have described a specific structure of disappearing seat it is to be understood that, in its broader scope, my invention is not to be limited or restricted to the use of a disappearing seat, nor to any form of seat in connection with the passage separating barriers, nor to any specific form of seat where a seat is employed, nor to any specific form of passage separating barrier, door control stand, or door operating mechanism.

It will be seen that in a construction of the nature shown and above described the seating capacity of the car is substantially and materially increased, and the use of comfortable cross seats now frequently employed in cars is provided for. It will also be seen that only one or two seat spaces are unemployed for seating purposes whether the car is operated as a near-side, a farside, an end entrance or a center entrance7 car, one seat opposite `the doorway through which passengers enter vand leave the car, being folded up into disappearing relation with respect to the associated passage separating barrier, while a seat across the aisle from such doorway may also be folded up, if necessary, to afford a sufficient space for the conductor to stand out of the way of entering, leaving or seated passengers', and in which location he is conveniently positioned with relation to the control stand from which the doors in use are operated.

Having now set forth the objects and nature of my invention, and a construction embodying the principles thereof, what I claim as new and useful and of my own invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

1. A car having a longitudinal central aisle and side doorways and doors opposite each other on opposite sides of the aisle, and a control device for the doors of each doorway, the control device for the doors on one side of the aisle being located opposite the central portion of the doorways on the other side of the aisle.V

2. A car having a longitudinal central aisle and side doorways and doors at the ends of the car, a control device for the doors of each doorway, the control device for the doors of one doorway being located adjacent the opposite doorways on the opposite side of the aisle.

3. A car having a longitudinal central aisle and side doorways and doors located opposite each other at the ends and also intermediate the ends of the car, a control device for the doors of each doorway, the control device for the doors of one doorway being located adjacent the opposite doorways on the opposite side of the aisle.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand on this 19th day of April, A. D.

IIARULD ROVNTREE.

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